Space Hulk!!

Way back when, Games Workshop (current share price GAW:LSE, 776 GBX) produced a little game based on it's established Warhammer 40,000 range called Space Hulk. It was Aliens (as in the film), with Imperial Space Marines taking the place of U.S. Colonial Marines and genestealers taking the place of, er, aliens. The game was simple enough, and difficult enough, to be a challenge for a weekday evening's entertainment over beer and snacks.

It had a few extensions, and a few rule additions published in White Dwarf, GW's monthly magazine, a second edition and then quietly disappeared. Anyway, about two or three years ago a third edition came out, quite unexpectedly and to little fanfare from GW. It was very professionally done, with nice plastic models (these have been painted very well):

Anyhoo, I'm a fan. When the first game came out, I started collecting more of the models from the original line and painting them up, and then I got the third edition when it came out. I've even got the card game from Fantasy Flight:

Now there's a video game that copies the board game very well, and jolly good it is too.

It's turn based and the interface is very simple, like the board game, just point and click. (Here's a screen shot I made using the Steam interface: very handy!)

Notice the log window on the right which details the dice rolls. Lovely!

I've even been busy and made an icon for the desktop shortcut as they don't provide one yet (it's on Dropbox here).

Now it's obviously not everyone's cup of tea, but if you are a W40K fan and loved the original board game, as I did, I recommend it.